Wikipedia:School and university projects/English4994

A St. John's University class -- English 4994 ("The World Split Open - Contemporary Women Essayists") -- is contributing to Wikipedia during Spring 2009. Our collective goals are to improve a selection of articles on contemporary women essayists.

This project is listed under School/University Projects.

Feel free to discuss this project on the English 4994 Project Talk Page.

Goals
- To improve Wikipedia's coverage of selected articles:
 * Joan Didion (Slouching Towards Bethlehem)
 * Adrienne Rich (Arts of the Possible)
 * Alice Walker (In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose)
 * Maxine Hong Kingston (The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts)
 * June Jordan (Some of Us Did Not Die)
 * Terry Tempest Williams (An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field)
 * Arundhati Roy (War Talk)

Most of these articles are now "Stub" or "Start."

- To practice collaborative writing and the discussion that surrounds collaborative writing

- To be active on the Discussion pages of these articles (suggesting additions, edits, etc., as well as discussing additions, edits etc. made to the articles), research and post bibliographic information to be used in the article

- To add to the articles and edit within the articles

- To submit these articles (if and when they're ready) to Wikipedia review processes, such as did you know, peer review, good article assessment and featured article assessment.

English 4994 Users
Project Coordinator

AEG English4994 (talk) AEG English 4994

Users working on Joan Didion articles

ChristinaD English4994 (talk) ChristinaD English 4994

Cotis47 (talk) Cotis47

JenniferZ17 (talk) JenniferZ17

mfraser09 (talk) mfraser09

Users working on Adrienne Rich articles

MM English4994 (talk) MM English 4994

Karolina310 (talk) Karolina310

Users working on Alice Walker articles

Users working on Alice Walker Biography 

EEdwards22(talk) EEdwards22

STJdw(talk) STJdw

caitlin8504 (talk) caitlin8504

Users working on creating Alice Walker's In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

laquita05 (talk) laquita05

ara612 (talk) ara612

Users working on Maxine Hong Kingston articles

SA Eng4994 (talk) SA Eng4994

SCW4994 (talk) SCW4994

Lpier452 (talk) 12:18, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Mgpaz07 (talk) 21:30, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Users working on June Jordan articles

Elianacardenas (talk) Elianacardenas

Elundi (talk) 16:21, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

ben.ruoff (talk) ben.ruoff

User working on Terry Tempest Williams articles

Ldond09 (talk) Ldond09

Users working on Arundhati Roy articles

kmcm23 (talk) kmcm23

Law1221 (talk) Law1221

ksju (talk) ksju

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